Table Of ContentIntroductionChapter 1:Thinking Beyond the 20th Century:Democracy and Education After LiberalismChapter 2: The Defects of Liberalism:Lasting Elements of Negative PragmatismChapter 3: Democracy as a Way of Life,Democracy in the Face of TerrorismChapter 4: Relevances, Realities and Rat Races:Democracy as a Personal Way of LifeChapter 5: From the Art of Surfaces to Control Societies and Beyond:Stoicism, Postmodernism, and Pan-MachinismChapter 6: From Consciousness of Doom to Criticism:Non-Dialectical Critical TheoryChapter 7: Genealogy, Critique, and Transformation:In Our TimeChapter 8: Power/Inquiry:Criticism and the Logic of PragmatismChapter 9:Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the Future of Philosophy:Farewell to an IdeaChapter 10: No Consolation:Life Without Spirituality, Philosophy Without TranscendenceIndex
SynopsisPragmatism, Postmodernism and the Future of Philosophy is a vigorous and dynamic confrontation with the task and temperament of philosophy today. In this energetic and far-reaching new book, Stuhr draws persuasively on the resources of the pragmatist tradition of James and Dewey, and critically engages the work of Continental philosophers like Adorno, Foucault, and Deleuze, to explore fundamental questions of how we might think and live differently in the future. Along the way, the book addresses important issues in public policy, university administration, spirituality, and the notion of community and its meaning in a global world of difference. This book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of philosophy, and the ways in which philosophical thinking can help us live better, more fulfilling lives.